J.R.R. Tolkien I The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 1963, first edition, signed presentation copy, with autograph letter signed mentioning the death of C.S. Lewis
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J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, 1963
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER in black ink, 8vo, in-text illustrations, pictorial boards, dust-jacket, minor edgewear
[with, loosely inserted:]
Autograph letter signed ("Ronald Tolkien"), to Eileen Elgar, thanking her for her postcard from Barbados, presenting her with "the promised copy of my book of verses, with best wishes for Christmas", outlining bibliographical differences between the English and American first editions, and REFERENCING HIS SADNESS AT THE DEATH OF HIS FELLOW AUTHOR AND INKLING ("I have been very much bereaved by the death of my friend C.S. Lewis on November 22nd"), 2 pages, headed stationery of 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, 14 December 1963
PROVENANCE:
Presented by the author as a Christmas gift to Eileen Elgar; by family descent